Yuppers.

He has a talent for picking the most apt analogy and then reading history wrong.

Interestingly enough the year 1939 is very pivotal. The pogroms of '38 were so bad that emigration, which had been relatively low after the first year of the Third Reich took a sudden massive jump to an all time high.

And its not that it had become easier. Indeed the revocation of standard passports, the property confiscation and the massive fees required were increasing. By this time Jews could do almost nothing legitimate to be employed; so the ever increasing fees met an ever dwindling ability to raise those fees. Whether it was raiding the last pfennig of savings or monies sent by relatives abroad; emigration peaked as things got undeniably bad.

In '39 and '40 conditions are even worse. But '39 has less emigration.

Clearly a greater incentive to leave had met its match as the doors are being slammed shut. When you're in a death-trap with no way out "provoking" your captors isn't really possible. Unless by "provoke" one refers to the provocateur's persistence in remaining alive.

Dante